It’s the end of the Advent of Code for 2020. The last week was tough – the part 1s were fairly easily doable, but part 2s often were a lot harder. In the end, I managed to solve all of this week but 1 in BaseA Alteryx. For the one I couldn’t, I used BaseA…
So week 1 and week 2 were both possible in BaseA Alteryx, although getting harder as the puzzles progress. Week 3 was the first time I needed to go beyond BaseA to find a solution for a couple of the parts (though in at least one case the community found a BaseA solution). As with…
So week 1 was well suited to Alteryx, let’s see how week 2 unfolded! A nice and gentle Sunday puzzle lulled me into the belief that it was going to be an easy week, followed by the first needed use of an iterative macro, and then something that looked far too much like the dreaded…
So it’s December and time again for the annual Advent of Code. For those not familiar, this is a set of 25 puzzles (each with 2 parts) set by Eric Wastl. They have a Christmas theme and story and are solvable with just a little programming knowledge and some puzzle-solving skills. The puzzles start quite…
In this blog, I look at a few different ways to recreate the Mandelbrot set within Alteryx using just the BaseA tools. Along the way taking a look at pros and cons of each approach and the performance of the new AMP engine.
As a bit of a thought experiment, I wondered if how hard it would be to create a cubic spline interpolation within Alteryx. As with many of my games BaseA rules apply. Stealing an idea from Tasha Alfano, I thought I would do it in both python and Alteryx from first principles. A quick shout…
Matt Parker is publishing a weekly puzzle on his Think Maths website every Wednesday. This week’s puzzle was a Coin Puzzle. This puzzle felt like one that Alteryx would be well suited to solving. Representing the Board’s State The board looks like: Each location can either have a coin or not have a coin. This…
So the lights are up across London, the weather is atrocious and the trains are going nowhere fast; so it must be time to think about the Advent of Code. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, this is a fantastic set of 25 puzzles released one by one every day in December…
This post also appeared on the Alteryx Engine Works Blog. A friend on the Alteryx community recently asked me about recreating the Excel trendline capabilities within Alteryx. If you have the predictive tools installed then Alteryx has a Linear Regression tool which will fit a linear model to the set. This uses R and produces…
This post first appeared on the Alteryx Community The Abacus add in is a collection of custom functions that make writing expressions in Alteryx easier or gives completely new functionality (such as variables). Originally created to make my life easier, they have grown into a powerful extension for Alteryx that can speed up the creation…
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